Meeting regularly to discuss matters of importance on an array of topics, the Department of Bioengineering has a number of working committees.
- The Department Management committee,
- The Safety and Safety Process committees,
- The Teaching Committee,
- The Research Committee,
- The Postgraduate Research Committee and
- The Equality and Departmental Culture Committee (EDCC)
The Terms of Reference and reporting structure of these committees is detailed here.
These committees derive solutions and take actions to ensure that the Department is continuously improving, growing and providing a positive experience for staff and students alike. Below is a list of members belonging to each one.
In addition to their research and teaching remit, academics have supplementary roles and these are detailed in the table below alongside committee responsibilities and Department Leadership.
Committees & supplementary roles
- Department Management Committee (DMC)
- Department Research Committee (DRC)
- Department Teaching Committee (DTC)
- Postgraduate Research Committee
- Safety Process Committee
- Safety Committee
- Equality and Departmental Culture Committee (EDCC)
- Academic Supplementary Roles
Department Management Committee (DMC)
| Academic | Role |
|---|---|
| Professor Rylie Green | Head of Department |
| Dr Spyros Masouros | Director of Teaching |
| Professor Simon Schultz | Director of Research |
| Dr Choon Hwai Yap | Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) |
| Professor Darryl Overby | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Professor Claudia Clopath | Chair of Equality and Departmental Culture Committee |
| Mrs Sneha Saunders | Department Operations Manager |
| Professor Tom Ellis | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Professor Reiko Tanaka | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Dr Angela Kedgley | Academic Load Director |
| Professor Peter Weinberg | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Dr Ben Almquist | Elected Department Representative |
Department Research Committee (DRC)
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Director of Research | Professor Simon Schultz |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies, Research | Dr Choon Hwai Yap |
| Domain Expert in Imaging | Dr. Amanda Foust |
| Domain Expert in Signal and Image Processing |
Prof. Mengxing Tang |
| Domain Expert in Theoretical and Computational Modeling | Dr. Chiu Fan Lee |
| Equipment Champion | Prof. Etienne Burdet |
| Fellowship Coordinator and Academic Representative | Dr Naomi Nakayama |
| Laboratory Manager | Mr Ken Keating |
| Research Manager and Network Coordinator | Dr Kalypso Charalambous |
| Secretariat | Mr Chris Sanders |
Department Teaching Committee (DTC)
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair and Director of Teaching | Dr Spyros Masouros |
| Senior Tutor | Dr Faraz Janan |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies (Taught) and Academic Staff Representative | Dr David Labonte |
| Examinations Officer | Dr Chris Rowlands |
| Head of Student Programmes | Mrs Nicola Guirguis |
| Teaching Operations Manager | Miss Nicole Harbert |
| Admissions and Outreach Manager | Ms Jayne Shaw |
| Academic Tutor | Mr Martin Holloway |
| Student Liaison Officer | Dr Joseph van Batenburg-Sherwood |
| Departmental Student Representatives |
TBC |
| Student Wellbeing Representative | TBC |
| Undergraduate Programme Leads | |
| MSc Programme Leads | Prof Etienne Burdet Dr David Labonte |
Postgraduate Research Committee
Staff members:
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair and Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | Dr Choon Hwai Yap |
| Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | Dr Claire Higgins |
| Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (MRes) | Dr Amanda Foust |
| Senior Tutor for Postgraduate Research | Dr Sylvain Ladame |
| GTA Coordinator | Dr Pete Lally |
| Head of Student Programmes | Nicola Guirguis |
| Postgraduate Research Student Programmes Manager | Raleigh Mangsat |
| Senior Student Administrator (PhD and MRes programmes) | Conchi Vera-Valderrama |
| Senior Student Administrator (PhD and MRes programmes) | Kelly Condra |
Student members:
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| PhD Representative | Alba Martinez-Basalo |
| PhD Representative | Maria Nikolaidi |
| PhD Representative | Anna Rhodes |
| PhD Representative | Livia Soro |
| PhD Representative | Aliya Pachmann |
| MRes Medical Device and Entrepreneurship Representative | Chelsea Bunke |
| MRes Cancer Technology Representative | Shurui Lyu |
| MRes Bioengineering Representative | Victoria Medina |
| MRes Neurotechnology Representative | Yago Parrilla Santander |
| Departmental Academic Representative | Vanessa Drevenakova |
Safety Process Committee
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair and Academic representative | Dr Sam Au |
| Co-Chair and Departmental Deputy Safety Adviser (Technical) | Dr Miguel Hermida Ayala |
| Academic representative | Dr Sophie V Morse |
| Departmental Safety Adviser | Mr Kenneth Keating |
| Committee secretary | Marta Garcia Bellmunt |
| Systems and Development | Edit Toth |
| Technical representative | Greg Casson |
| Postgraduate student representative | Andra Topan |
| Postdoc representative | Dr Anastasiya Kishkevich |
| Faculty Safety Advisor | Beth Wallis |
Safety Committee
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair and Head of Department | Professor Rylie Green |
| Department Safety Officer | Mr Ken Keating |
| Deputy Safety Officer and BioSafety | Dr. Miguel Hermida |
| Technical Safety Support and Secretary | Ms. Marta Garcia Bellmunt |
| Buildings Managers | Mr Guy Fairhurst Mr Raymond Henry Mr Michael St Claire Lang |
| Biological Safety Officer | Mr Tim Budd |
| Chemical Safety | Professor Danny O'Hare |
| Electrical Safety | Mr Paschal Egan |
| Fire Safety | Mr Jonathan Ryan Mr Steve Walker Ms Lucy Cowell |
| HTA | Dr. Nic Newell |
| In-Vivo Work | Mr Oliver Dubois |
| Radiation, including Laser, Safety | Mr Sharad Patel |
| Mechanical Safety | Mr John Waldock |
| Infrastructure | Mr Greg Casson |
| Office | Mr Joel Eustaquio |
| Faculty Safety Adviser | Alice Hunt |
| Stevens Group | Ms Lucy Chapman Mr Dennis Hartsink |
| Undergraduate students and projects | Dr Ian Radcliffe |
| Research Students representative | TBC |
| College Safety Department Representative(s) | Mr Eddie Hartrick Mr Tim Budd |
Equality and Departmental Culture Committee (EDCC)
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair (Academic representative) | Professor Claudia Clopath |
| Department Operations Manager | Mrs Sneha Saunders |
| Athena SWAN Coordinator | Mr Rob Bell |
| Academic representative | Dr Parry Hashemi |
| Academic representative | Dr Victoria Salem |
| Academic representative | Dr Julien Vermot |
| Professional Services Staff representative | Mr Greg Casson |
| Admissions and Outreach Manager | Ms Jayne Shaw |
| Campus Champion | Dr Claire Higgins |
| Campus Champion | Dr Huai-Ti Lin |
| BAME Representative | Debbie Adegoke |
| PhD representative | Leah Xu |
| PhD representative | Krystyna Broda |
| PostDoc & Fellows Development Advisor | Rachel Herries |
| Postdoc representative | Dr Anastasiya Kishkevich |
| Postdoc representative | Dr Roberto Portillo Lara |
| Undergraduate representative | TBC |
| James West Fellowship | Dr Joseph van Batenburg-Sherwood |
| Bioengineering Society President | Ioana Esanu |
| Visiting Member (Materials) | Dr Andrew Cairns |
Academic Supplementary Roles
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Head of Department | Professor Rylie Green |
| Academic Load Director | Dr Angela Kedgley |
| Academic Staff Line manager | Professor Darryl Overby Professor Tom Ellis Professor Reiko Tanaka Professor Peter Weinberg |
| BSc Degree Leader (Biomedical Technology Ventures) | Dr Ben Almquist |
| Campus Champion | Dr Claire Higgins (White City) Dr Huai-Ti Lin (South Ken) |
| City and Guilds College Association Liaison Officer and Alumni Relations | Dr Andriy S. Kozlov |
| Chair of Equality and Departmental Culture Committee | Professor Claudia Clopath |
| Chair of Safety Systems working group | Dr Sam Au |
| College Activity - Department 'appointment': Strategic | Dr Periklis Pantazis |
| Department Seminars Coordinator | Mr Aidan Roche |
| Director of Impact | Professor Anthony M J Bull |
| Director of MRes Bioengineering | Dr Firat Guder |
| Director of MRes Cancer Technology | Dr Jun Ishihara |
| Director of MRes Medical Device Design | Dr Sam Au |
| Director of MRes Neurotechnology | Dr Hayriye Cagnan |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | Dr Choon Hwai Yap |
| ↳ Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | Dr Amanda Foust |
| ↳ Deputy Director Postgraduate Studies (PhD Research) | Dr Claire Higgins |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies (Taught) | Dr David Labonte |
| Director of Research | Professor Simon Schultz |
| Director of Teaching | Dr Spyros Masouros |
| DRC Domain Expert | Dr Amanda Foust Dr Chiu Fan Lee Professor Mengxing Tang |
| Elected Department Representatives | |
| Examinations Officer | Dr Christopher Rowlands |
| ↳ Deputy Examinations Officer | Dr Adam Celiz |
| Fellowship Lead | Dr Naomi Nakayama |
| Female Academic Network Coordinator | Dr Dandan Zhang |
| GTA Officer | Dr Pete Lally |
| Intercalated BSc Biomedical Engineering lead | Dr Nicolas Newell |
| MEng Biomedical Engineering lead | Dr Maria Parkes |
| MEng Molecular Bioengineering lead | Dr Claire Stanley |
| MSc Programme lead: Engineering for Biomedicine | Dr Victoria Salem |
| PhD Cohort Mentors |
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| Postdoc Champion | Dr Juan Alvaro Gallego |
| Postgraduate Tutor (MRes and PhD) | Dr Sylvain Ladame |
| Projects Officer (final year) | Dr Huai-Ti Lin |
| Projects Officer (group projects) | Dr Pedro Ballester |
| Senior Tutor (Taught Courses) | Dr Faraz Janan |
| ↳ Deputy Senior Tutor (Taught Courses) | Dr Warren Macdonald |
| Societal Engagement Champion | Dr Juan Alvaro Gallego |
| Student Liaison Officer | Dr Joseph van Batenburg-Sherwood |
| Translation Group Member | Dr Ben Almquist Dr Firat Guder Dr Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro Professor Danny O'Hare Dr Victoria Salem |
| UG Exchange Programme Coordinator | Dr Dandan Zhang |